HADDON tram devotee Tony Smith doesn’t mind moving with the times. So long as the trip rattles along nice and slowly. For more than four decades, the 62-year-old has been a train engineer by day and a ...

MELBOURNE’S mothballed fleet of iconic W-Class trams would be turned into cafes under a plan to save them from the graveyard. But there are fears the bold bid, which even aims to have them in New York ...

The government of Victoria in Australia has announced the opening of a new Preston Tram Depot and Workshop for Melbourne’s E-Class trams. Designed to operate as a maintenance depot for these vehicles, ...

Melbourne’s public transport system is going through some big changes: the Metro Tunnel is approaching completion, Myki card readers are being upgraded to take different forms of payment, and soon, a ...

Melbourne is home to the largest operational tram network in the world, carrying more than 200 million passengers each year. But have you ever wondered which route is the most popular? Tram passenger ...

The Government of Victoria in Australia has announced the start of operations of the first Bombardier E-Class tram in Melbourne. Two new tram services, 51 and 52, are currently set to begin passenger ...

Disability advocates have criticised state government plans to build new tram stops in North Melbourne that don’t allow wheelchair users to access trams, despite a legal requirement to do so. The ...

A WAVE of nostalgia could help save Melbourne’s mothballed W-Class trams from their trundle to the scrapheap. Research by Public Transport Victoria has uncovered strong public sentiment toward the ...

Melbourne tram drivers Sally Burgess and Craig Maher have been training for the World Tramdriver Championship in Vienna. The competition combines eight activities, including precision stopping and ...

City of Melbourne Knowledge Fellow 2017-18, Senior Lecturer in Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology Playable cities connect people and place in creative ways. They appropriate ...

Around 90 striking workers are picketing the East Preston Tram Depot in northern Melbourne over a new enterprise agreement (EA) on wages and conditions. The picket at the Downer Group site, which is ...